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“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.”
Quote by -Isabel Allende
To fight the United States is like fighting the whole world. But it has been decided. So I will fight the best I can.
Quote by -Isoroku Yamamoto
To fight the United States is like fighting the whole world. But it has been decided. So I will fight the best I can.
Quote by -Isoroku Yamamoto
I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.
Quote by -Isoroku Yamamoto
“As we look then at these two powerful tools of the enemy, we see that doubt causes a person to waver between two opinions, whereas unbelief leads to disobedience. I”
Quote by -Joyce Meyer
In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
Quote by -Ulrich Beck
“The powerful are self-immunized from even inquiry, let alone punishment for their crimes.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“In effect, the large bureaucracies of the powerful subsidize the mass media, and gain special access by their contribution to reducing the media's costs of acquiring the raw materials of, and producing, news. The large entities that provide this subsidy become "routine" news sources have privileged access to the gates. Non-routine sources must struggle for access, and may be ignored by the arbitrary decision of the gatekeepers. It should also be noted that in the case of the largesse of the Pentagon and the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy, the subsidy is at the taxpayers' expense, so that, in effect, the citizenry pays to be propagandized in the interest of powerful groups such as military contractors and other sponsors of state terrorism.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”
Quote by -Benjamin Disraeli
"The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it."
Quote by -Blake Lively
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“They’re powerful, those songs. At times they’ve been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.”
Quote by -Johnny Cash
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
"The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"When Suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe
"The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace."
Quote by -Chinua Achebe